Jean Chaufourier
Jean Chaufourier (1675–1757) was a French landscape painter and engraver. He was born in Paris. He married a daughter of Gerard Edelinck, who was also an engraver.
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Jean Chaufourier
Jean Chaufourier · Self-photographed · Public domain
- Died
- 1757 · Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · artist · draftsperson · copper engraver · illustrator · landscape architect · writer
- Fields
- landscape
- Languages
- French
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Biography
Biography
Chaufourier taught drawing to Pierre-Jean Mariette. He was received into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1735, and died in St. Germain-en-Laye in 1757. There are three of his drawings in the Louvre, and a set of eight landscapes engraved by him has survived.
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Jean Chaufourier appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Getty Union List of Artist Names as a draughtsman, painter, printmaker, copperplate engraver and illustrator (1679 – 28 November 1757). Jean Chaufourier was born in 1679 in Paris. Jean Chaufourier died on 28 November 1757; the place of death is Saint-Germain-en-Laye, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Getty Union List of Artist Names. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records the fuller form Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines).
Abbaye Saint-Germain-des-Près en 1368 - Jacques Bouillart, Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Germain-des-Prez, contenant la vie des abbés qui l'ont gouvernée depuis sa fondation, 1724, planche 6
Jean Chaufourier · BnF Gallica Jacques Brouillart, Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Germain-des-Prez, 1724
Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Près - Plan de l'église: ancienne et nouvelle dispositions - Jacques Bouillart, Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Germain-des-Prez, 1724
Jean Chaufourier · BnF Gallica Jacques Bouillart, Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Germain-des-Prez, 1724
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1679
Jean Chaufourier born at Paris.
1757
Jean Chaufourier died at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
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